Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-06-10

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sort Ieur 100 Years | laya hot suffered thus
Oh, Il | slnhod against thee, have hot wiped
away tho SIM When wilt thJn como back "a
mo, who have all, mid yet without thee have
haught! What Is there than can dol
WHAT WHAT WHAT Aud perchancc she
--pcrchauce that Egyptian doth abide with
thco where thou art, and meek my memory.
Oh, why could l not die with thee, who
slew thco' Alas that | cannot die! Alas
Alisl7 Aud she flung herself promo upon tic
ground, and sobbcd and wopt till thought
her heart must burst.
Suddenly she ceased, raised herself 10 her
feet, and tossing her long locks impatiently,
swept across to where the figure lay upon the
stone.
aOh, Kallkrates," sho cried, and trcm-
bled ut the name ~ must look upon thy face
again, though it DO agony. 1t generation
since looked upon thee whom | slew-slew
with mine own hand;" and with trembling
fingers she seized the corner of the wrapping
that lay over tho form upon the stone bier
and then PAUSED. When shs spoke again II
was in kind Of awed whisper, as though her
idea were terrible even to herself
Shall raise thee" she said, apparently
addressing the corpse, $50 that thou standcst
there before mo us of oldi can do it," and
he hold out her hands over tho sllceted dead,
while her whole frame became rigid and ter.
rible to see and her eyes grew fixed and dull
shrunk In horror behind the curtain, my
hair stood up upon my head, and whether IL
was my Imagination or q fact am unable tC
say, but thought that the quiet form be
Meath the covering began TO culver and the
winding sheet to lift as though it lay on the
breast of one who slept Suddenly she with
drew her hands frt
"What is the user she said, gloomily. "Ot
what use is it to recall the semblance of life
when | cannot recall the SPIRIT Even IL thou
stoodst before me thou wouldst not know
nue. and couldst but do what bid thee. The
life in thee would be my life and not thy life,
Kallikrates"
For a moment she stood there, and then
cast herself down on her knees beside the
form, and began to press her lips against the
sheet and weep. There was something 50
horrible about the sight of this fearsoma
woman letting loose her passion on the dead
so much more horrible even than anything
that hal gone before-that could no longer
bear to look at it, and turning, commenced to
creep, shaking as was in every limb, slowly
along tue pitch dark passage, feeling in my
heart that had a vision of Soul in Hell.
On stumbled, l scarcely know how Twice
fell; once turned up the bisecting passage,
but fortunately found out my mistake in
time Twenty minutes or more crept along,
till at last it occurred to me that must have
passed the little stair by which descended.
So, utterly exhausted and nearly frightened
to death, sunk down at length there on the
stone flooring, and into oblivion.
When came TO | noticed faint ray al
light in the passage just behind me. l crel
to it aud found it was the little stair, down
which the weak dawn WINS stealing Passing
up it, gained my chamber in safety, and
ilinging myself on the couch, was soon lost in
slumber, or rather stupor.